“One of the big tricks that everybody plays on everyone is to say, ‘Well, you have to be what you are. Don’t try to be anything else.’ Well look, if you don’t try to be something else, you aren’t. Just as there are no other problems than other people’s problems—there are no problems of yours. You have to misown a problem before it can be a problem to you—so it is also true that a thetan, without postulating himself into some form of beingness, isn’t.
“Now, he does have awareness, does have knowingness, he does have the capability of remembering. He has tremendous capabilities. But to say that he is something—by which you would mean, he has an identity—no, this isn’t true. He has to invent or assume an invented identity before he has an identity.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
Excerpted from the lecture The Postulate of Game delivered on 10 January 1957. This can be found in the 16th American ACC lectures. Track 4.
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